Hoydenishness Quotes

#1. Only a master weaver could intertwine dark and light threads in such a way that all one saw was beauty when looking back at the finished tapestry.

Karen Witemeyer

#2. Westerners who go native with Chinese ideas are called 'eggs' - outside white, inside yellow -, and are often systematically excluded from their expat community's activities, let alone the financial support system.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#3. In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits. There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.

David Lee Roth

#4. Music makes me want to dance but I'm not sure that's something anybody wants to observe.

Gotye

#5. Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

John Barth

#6. Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.

Henry Purcell

#7. No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).

Frederic Bastiat

#8. How will you feel when you're being swallowed up?

Michel Schneider